I posted a humorous strip on my Facebook platform last week, of a veteran humour-merchant asking, comically, why the source of his wealth should be investigated now, when no one bothered in the first place, to find out the source of his poverty before he came about his big money.
Another cartoon from a different source preceded it. The question posed in that one is: What is the difference between a lawyer and a liar? The answer, according to the cartoonist, lies in the pronunciation.
These jokes sum up the monumental tragedy that played out in our country’s security architecture last week in what must be roundly condemned by all genuine lovers of this country. And what the lawyer’s intervention may be on the matter, in the next week or so.
Members of the two major security/ intelligence organisations in the land, the EFCC and the DSS, took up residence on the street to wash up their dirty linens and left some stench oozing from their outrageous indiscretion to their colleagues offices in saner societies as faraway America (Pentagon) and their British MI5 counterparts at Oval in London.
We are told the flexing of muscles and machines was about the DSS heavily-armed men preventing their equally well-armed EFCC counterparts from arresting the suspended directors-general of the Department of State Security and the National Intelligence Agency who, we are told, have some questions to answer, bothering on impropriety.
I have travelled a bit around the world and what happened in Nigeria last week within the security outfits is a national disgrace and a huge embarrassment to the Federal Government, which must not be viewed lightly. For crying out loud, if there had been a shoot-out, several passers-by would have been gunned down in the cross-fire—to massage somebody’s ego! So, where is synergy in the institutions meant to protect lives in our land?
It behoves the Buhari government to investigate this utterly irresponsible and indefensible public show of shame and distance itself from it completely. It goes even beyond that. Buhari, the man most citizens still accord some measure of respect, should waste no time in reassuring Nigerians that there is truly no worrying disconnect within his administration.
Whoever ordered the prevention of the EFCC from carrying out its statutory duties within the DSS top hierarchy and possibly without, must be made to face the full rigours of the law when identified. If prompt punitive action is delayed, I will not be surprised if some dog-collar and wig-wearing learned men will not approach the courts to want to justify this shameless obstruction of justice, one way or the other.
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